As the Mid-America Union prepares for its constituency meetings, we invite you to take a moment to review a few hightlights from the last five years at Union College. At every step of the way, the leadership and constituents of the Mid-America Union have supported Union College. Whether participating in Project Impact, funding infrastructure upgrades, advising through the Board of Trustees, rejoicing, praying or hoping with us, The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mid-America demonstrates over and over again its support for the mission and vision of Union College.

Union College Library is seeking nominations for the 2011 Teacher of theYear Award.

This award recognizes a Union College teacher's support of the library during the school year and grants him or her the opportunity to expand an area of the library's collection which is of particular professional interest.

Union College's Mr. and Ms. World Pageant will be held at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 26, in the Union College gymnasium. The annual event offers sights and flavors from around the world as Union students representing their native countries compete for the Mr. or Ms. World crown.

In a game that was close until the last quarter, the Minnetonka Christian Academy Royals (Twin Cities, Minnesota) won the 2011 Mid-America men's basketball tournament by edging out the Campion Academy Cougars (Boulder, Colo.) 54-41.

In the women's bracket, the College View Academy Eagles (Lincoln, Neb.) defeated the Minnetonka Christian Academy Royals (Twin Cities, Minnesota) 60-34 to take the title.

Have you ever considered becoming a volunteer literacy tutor? Are you preparing to teach and want to be sure you know how to help your students learn to read? Join us on February 22, 2011 for a discussion of John Corcoran's book, The Teacher Who Couldn't Read, and learn about effective methods for teaching literacy. Peggy Wahlen from Union's English as a Second Language department will lead the discussion beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Library room 121.

When I discovered that Union College’s Teaching
Learning Center (TLC) planned to start offering free academic and life coaching
sessions, my squeal of glee prompted stares from my coworkers. I had to fight
the urge to jump out of my chair, race to the TLC office and schedule my first
appointment.

We are pleased to announce that Union College is currently trialing a campus wide subscription to UpToDate.

UpToDate is an electronic resource offering evidence-based, synthesized medical information quickly at the point of care. It is comprised of original topics that are written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of physician experts.

Chicago during the winter is a fascinating place. Eight Scholars experienced some of
what Chicago has to offer on a trip there during Winter Break, February 10-13, 2011. Arriving in Chicago by rented van at 5:00 pm on Thursday, the students spent the evening in the Art Institute
of Chicago, which was free of admission that evening. On a whirlwind tour, they saw most of the highlights of the museum, including Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

When Jovannah Poor Bear-Adams
first started creating Navajo pottery at the Holbrook Seventh-day
Adventist School, it was just a craft to her. It was a way for her to
fill up empty hours and make a little extra cash. However, since then it
has become much, much more. According to Poor Bear-Adams, creating
traditional art is "how I connect to my Native American heritage."

Union College nursing graduates posted the highest pass rate
in the state of Nebraska on the National Council Licensure Examination, or
NCLEX, for a fifth straight quarter, ending in December 2010. Since October
2009, Union's 97 percent pass rate has surpassed the fourteen other nursing
schools in the state and the Nebraska (88 percent) and national (87 percent)
averages.

From now until April 7, 2011, DynaMed will be available for the students and faculty who are interested in medical topics to explore. DynaMedoffers clinically organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics, surveillance of more than 500 journals, and daily content updates. If you have questio

What do you believe about illiteracy? Is someone who cannot read or write stupid? Is illiteracy primarily a socioeconomic problem? Does there come a point when it is too late for a person to learn to read? These are all common myths about adult illiteracy. Join us on January 19, 2011 for a discussion of John Corcoran's book, The Teacher Who Couldn't Read, and learn the truth about these as other issues related to literacy. Debbie Forshee-Sweeney from Union's Teaching Learning Center will lead the discussion beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Janna Buttrick, a junior at Union College, will make a
remarkable trek from Lincoln, Neb., to her home in Tampa, Fla., over Christmas break. The
grueling 1500-plus mile trip won’t be just for pleasure or to test the limitations
of her own body—she will fight traffic on the highway to raise funds to fight a

Union College nursing graduates posted a 97.3 percent
first-time pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination, or NCLEX,
for the last year from October 2009 to October 2010. Union finished well ahead of the Nebraska pass rate (88.32
percent) and the national pass rate (87.56 percent) and had the highest rate of
the fourteen schools of nursing in the state.

Union College Library in collaboration with the Writing Studio, Teaching Learning Center, Career Center, ESL, and the Campus Store is pleased to announce One Book One Union 2010-2011. This year's selection, The Teacher Who Couldn't Read by John Corcoran, is the story of a man who finished high school and college, became a teacher, and later started his own business, all without being able to read proficiently. He finally learned to read when he was 48 years old.